What You Think You Know About Football Is Wrong

Our view of football will never be the same again. Written by a
world-respected football historian, this football unique gift title
reveals the global game's greatest myths and untruths.

Football has been completely mythologized and many of the things
football fans think they know about football and its history turn out
not to be true. We want to believe the myths, and so they become
accepted. So much football writing is not properly researched, and so
the myths get repeated, again and again and again.

Written by Kevin Moore, the founding director of the National Football
Museum (the world's leading football museum), this thoroughly researched
and authoritative book debunks 50 of the greatest myths surrounding
football. Backed up by the highest level of academic research yet
written in an accessible style, the book explores the truth behind many
accepted myths. For example, did you know:

· The Germans took football to Brazil, not the English

· Rugby and not football could quite easily have been the world's
leading sport

· There are gay professional players - and always have been!

· Football hooliganism did not begin in England

· Shirt colours do make a difference

· Cambridge and not Sheffield is the home of the oldest football club in
the world

· Arsenal should not be in the Premier League. they cheated to be there

· The Dynamo Kiev team were not executed after beating a German SS team
in 1941

· England did not win the World Cup fairly in 1966 . but not in the way
you think!

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